rilkefan: I thought about 22.e5, planning to play Bc2 and put the rooks on open files on the kingside, but stockfish points out that while after 22...Qg6+ white can get away with 23.Kh1 because after ...Qe4+ 24.Qg2 Qxe3 25.Rf3 Qh6 26.Rg1 the attack is +1, but 22...Rac8 23.Rac1 Qg6+ is actually better for black because of the extra tempo with an attack on c3.

Instead, in the game line, after 23.Rf3 white maintains about a pawn advantage; it gives 23...Nf6 24.Raf1 Rae8 25.Qg2 Re7 (the point I guess of the previous move, the idea being that after d5 black can take with the knight because f7 is defended) 26.c4 and white has a very nice position after ...Kh8 27.Kh1 or ...Ne4 27.Rf4 and the attacking plan I wanted in the first place.

rilkefan: I've got _The King-Hunt_, by Nunn and Cozens (who wrote the first edition that Nunn revised). The book notes that "Black had a ready-made attack on the other wing too". It gives my above suggestion, 22.e5, an exclam, presumably missing the ...Rac8 line stockfish sees. And it misses the defensive/offensive 23.Rf3, which leaves white up over a pawn per SF.

Incidentally, it says that 28...Nf3 drops all advantage after 29.Qg2 - winning was 28...Nxc4.

rilkefan: _The King-Hunt_ has 29.Qg2 Qa5+ 30.Kd3 Nh4, which is funny since the stronger move appears in the game. Stockfish thinks black is winning (though not mating quickly) either way, preferring 29.Qe2. I can't follow your line at move 35.

Anyway, I suspect much of the analysis in the book won't stand up to modern scrutiny. In this game it doesn't even recognize that white should have gotten a strong to winning attack out of the middlegame.

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